Four amateur astronauts in SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew successfully return to Earth after three days

By Helen Johnson
Published 19th Sep 2021, 12:50 BST
Four amateur astronauts successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space (Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Four amateur astronauts successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space (Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Four amateur astronauts successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space (Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Four amateur astronauts successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space.

The Inspiration4 crew left on a SpaceX capsule from Florida on Wednesday (15 September) and landed off the state's coast after 7pm local time on Saturday (18 September).

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They are the first private, all-civilian team ever to orbit the Earth.

This comes after Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos also recently went above the Earth's atmosphere in their own space vehicles.

The Inspiration4 team was led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, 38, who is chief executive of the e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc.